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Fake fan. We finished 15th
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Fake fan. We finished 15th
Just because a kid comes through your local comp or even plays in your junior rep teams doesn’t mean you get to avoid market forces and don’t have to compete with demand from other clubs.
We had just come off a two point finals loss to the eventual premiers. There was no need to ‘appease the fans’. Spags wasn’t looming with any sort of EGM threat, and we were expected to do well in the upcoming 2022 season. And we did.
All NRL clubs are ‘well resourced’ in the sense of them being able to run without going broke. But resourcing from the perspective of gaining a competitive advantage is the conversation we’re having here.
Discussion of valuable NFL franchises has led me to reconsider the resourcing at the Broncos. Value can come from just reducing operating costs. In that way, value is the opposite of resources. Like how Manly went broke after winning their last two premierships. They’ve never really recovered as a premiership force. Spent so much resources they ran out, the poor merkins.
I showed you how. The Cowboys being the most valuable doesn’t say anything about whether they spend the most on football operations.
No but directing those resources to improve the chance of winning competitions could become unsustainable and lead to a loss of value in a sporting business. This is one of the stated purposes of salary caps and other mechanisms such as FIFA’s financial fair play regulations.
I never said anything about them being cheap or hiring minimal staff. That’s hyperbole you made up. They just don’t need to get involved in a financial arms race of diminishing returns to increase their chances of winning a Super Bowl. If they are satisfied with their chances of winning in a given year then that is enough for them. Sustainability is a core tenet of business.
I told you it assumed a level playing field, and I’m sure we agree that it isn’t, just like in the NRL. But to work out how many competitions a team should expect to win in a given time period you need to start with the average, which is one in the number of teams in the competition. Anything else is just sports nerds fixating on outliers.
Yep, sports nerds fixating on outliers.
Their decision making resources may indeed be poor, just as ours have been for most of the past 38 years. But if they had more financial resources they would get better people wanting to be involved.
On the contrary, his talk of Cowboys and NY Nicks has convinced me I was wrong about the resourcing at the Broncos, and now their lack of success in recent years makes a lot more sense. So I can indeed be convinced of my erroneous opinions. Thanks @lucablight for showing me that the value of a club is worth much less than other factors including expenditure; a factor that tends to have a negative impact on the value of a business.
Someone recently mentioned this was likely. He is one of the highest price players off contract right now (for 2026).
I hoped we would, but we are already spending so much on our halves, probably more than any other team now that Luai has left the Panthers.
It’s not his job ffs!
We know who’s job it never was.
Uncle Nick gave him a New Car, New investment Apartment, and a place to rent next to @Gronk in the eastern suburbs for 250k on the cap.
Pamfers are just so damn lucky. Who needs resources when you are lucky.
Have I missed the part where Parra have signed Cameron Smith or Harry Grant?
I went to that place a few times. They didn’t defend very hard let me tell you.
